Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 513
The root confifts of two oval folid bulbs, crowned
with thick flelhy fibres : the ftalk is angular,
from a foot to eighteen inches high. The leaves
are radical, oval, two or three inches wide, and
generally two in number, but fometimes three.
Thofe on the ftalk are fmali, and refemble lan-
ceolate ^/p^^/^. The flowers are white, with a
flight mixture of green, and grow in a lono- lax
fpike. The petals are diilended fo as clearly to
exhibit the ftamina to open view : the lip is long
narrow and linear : the neciarium^ov fpur is tu-
bular, a little comprefl^ed, about an inch long,
and contains a clear liquor. The anthsra are
yellow, and diflant from each other : the flow-
ers in the morning and evening have a fweet
honey-like fmell.
/?^ There is a variety of this orchis with a fmaller
flower and fliorter ftalk, which bloflbms later,
and grows in dry paftures, called the leflTer but-
terfly orchis.
The roots of this, and moft of the other fpecies
of orchis, are efteeraed to be aphrodiflacal.
pyramidalis ORCHIS bulbis indivifis, nedarii labio bicorni
~ 2. trifido sequali integerrimo, cornu longo, petalis
fublanceolatis. Syfi, nat. 589. Sp.pL 1332. (Rail
Syn. p. 377. /. 18. hon. Seg, Veron. t. 15. /. u.
flof. Vaill. paris. /. 31./. 38. Jlof. Rivin, t. 14.
Hall. hiji. Helvet. 1286. /. 35.)
Purple late-flowering Orchis. Anglis,
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